From the Seattle Times:
“A team of eight University of Washington students will wage war this weekend against an expert force, defending their territory with stealth tactics and on-the-fly invention. But there are no physical weapons involved. There’s not even a physical battleground. For the fourth year in a row, the team will compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, in which teams from around the country attempt to shield a computer system from professional hackers aiming to cause… Read more →
Craig Chambers wins 2011 Dahl-Nygaard Prize
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to recognize research contributions to object-oriented programming. Each year two prizes are awarded: to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions, and to a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the area of Software Engineering.
The recipient of the 2011 senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize is Craig Chambers, for work done as a UW CSE faculty member from 1991-2007. (At that time,… Read more →
Congratulations to UW CSE NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners!
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are the most prestigious awards available to students beginning their graduate studies in the sciences. Among the winners of 3-year 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, announced today, are current UW CSE graduate students Katelin Bailey, Waylon Brunette, Katie Kuksenok, Yun-En Liu, and David Rosenbaum; UW CSE undergraduate seniors Will Johnson and Joy Kim; and 2010 UW CSE undergraduate alumnae Justine Sherry (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley) and Heather Underwood (now… Read more →
Intel blogs Corensic’s Jinx
Corensic, a software quality tool company founded by UW CSE faculty Mark Oskin and Luis Ceze, this week announced the availability of Jinx 1.2 R2, a software quality tool for Linux and Windows. Jinx exposes hard-to-find concurrency bugs in software, a task that ordinarily requires numerous manual steps and a great deal of luck.
Intel is blogging about Corensic and Jinx! As James Reinders states in his Intel blog, “I was a little ‘slow’ in figuring out what all… Read more →
Oren Etzioni, Yoky Matsuoka honored as UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows
UW Interim President Phyllis Wise today announced 8 inaugural University of Washington Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows. Included in this inaugural class are UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Yoky Matsuoka.
The Fellows are being honored as the University’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, having achieved success in translating their research into products and therapies or started groundbreaking programs for translation or collaboration with industry.
“‘The University of Washington is dedicated to maximizing our contribution to the Washington state economy, and the impact… Read more →
CSE’s Mark Bun wins Goldwater Scholarship
CSE’s Mark Bun, a junior who entered the UW through the early entrance program, has been awarded a 2011 Goldwater Scholarship. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences.
Mark is the sixth CSE undergraduate to be honored with a Goldwater Scholarship. See past award winners here.
Congratulations to Mark!
Read the UW announcement here.… Read more →
“Seattle’s Tech Job Crunch”
Xconomy writes:
“Another month gone by in Seattle, another Silicon Valley company has moved in to establish a beachhead for recruiting tech workers. … But all of those companies often wind up chasing the same pool of experienced workers – a pool that Washington state isn’t adding to fast enough by cranking out computer science graduates of its own.
“It’s a situation that can’t be sustained if the region is to maintain its prominence in the tech world. …
“Ed… Read more →
“Computer Science: Math In Action”
Check out Ed Lazowska’s talk to a University of Washington “Math Day” audience — high school students interested in the mathematical sciences. It’s a quick, fun overview of the field.
Slides are linked here.… Read more →
“Go for Computer Science”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is one of eight columnists featured in a New York Times “Room for Debate” essay series on education. Lazowska says:
“There are a few facts about education, employability and economic growth that we should keep in mind.
“A balanced education serves you best …
“The further out you are from college graduation, the less your success is attributable to the field in which you majored, and the more your success is attributable to a set of… Read more →
Anna Karlin, Evan Cohn
UW CSE’s Anna Karlin and her Stanford grad school classmate Evan Cohn stalled 23 years before getting married. But it finally happened tonight!… Read more →